Master’s Project: Venera

Merry Christmas Eve! To celebrate, here’s the fourth poster in the series I’m working on for my Digital Media Studies Master’s Project. Venera (which is written here in pseudo-Cyrllic) was actually a series of missions flown by the Soviet Union over a 20+ year period from 1961-1984, each aimed at Venus. It remains the only program to have landed anything on the surface of Venus. The design changed over the course of the flight program, but I based this poster on the Venera 9-12 landers — and specifically Venera 9, which was the first to transmit images of the surface back to Earth.

Venus has a very thick atmosphere, and the high temperatures and pressures on the surface make it a fairly unpleasant place. I tried to convey that with clouds and wisps of fog, but I’m not super happy with the way they turned out. Still, I must keep moving onward. The goal is good enough, not perfect…

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I'm Sarah, a NASA engineer by day and quilter by night. I live in Houston with my husband and our two young daughters. I've had this ol' blog for more than 15 years, and these days it's home to my quilting work, snippets of family life, and occasional musings on my engineering career.